NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

A decision by the California Supreme Court sheds rare light on how family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) like the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services behave, and how that behavior hurts children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Just over a year ago, a performance audit by the Montana Legislature’s Audit Division confirmed that the all-purpose excuse for this offered up by the state’s family policing agency, the Child and Family Services Division (CFSD) – drugs -- was, to put it kindly, nonsense. The chance comes in the form of a bill, HB-37.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I would have thought the toys were meant to help the kids; but, in any event, it’s not much help in a state that tears apart families at the second highest rate in America.)

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Renae Storey, Vice President Southern Region at Brightpoint, formerly Children’s Home & Aid and Adam Woehlke, Director of Behavioral Health Services at Hoyleton Youth & Family Services | October 9, 2023 Childhood and teenage years are an exciting time during our development as humans. Clair County, formerly the St.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

If a child has been or is being removed from your home under the Colorado Revised Statute 19-3-401 or 19-3-405(2)(a), OR a court entered an emergency protective order regarding your child(ren) pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 19-3-405(2)(b), see the notice of rights and remedies or families may contact the Office of Respondent Parents Counsel.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Because it so benefits both ACS and the state agency that runs the hotline, the Office of Children and Family Services. . ● He likes things the way they are because they enable Maximum Feasible Buckpassing. I’m thinking it’s the third one. That means it also benefits the mayor and the governor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing. Even had that therapist realized how much harm it would do to call in a report, the therapist may well have felt s/he had no choice. OCFS theoretically performs oversight.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 11, 2022

Community Partner: Shadin Adityeh, Director of Employment and Economic Empowerment Programs, Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County and Detroit. Welcome to the Motor City: Exploring Refugee Resettlement Among Afghan Refugees and Beyond. Faculty Member: Assistant Professor Ashley Cureton. Tuxedo Project Community Map.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Children and parents involved in Dependency and Neglect proceedings have a right to a Family Services Plan and can be represented by an attorney if they qualify. Will my children be adopted? Courts weigh many different factors and almost always attempt to reunify prior to considering termination of parental rights and adoption.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Together with Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County and local schools throughout Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Cureton will work with refugee youth to capture their pre-migration and resettlement experiences.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Because most parents involved with child welfare are covered by either Medicaid or (more rarely) private insurance, they could be referred to these services. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Unfortunately, when it comes to the most important recommendations, the Maine Office of Children and Family Services, while not opposing them outright, showed no enthusiasm. The only problem is that the recommendations are too timid, often suggesting pilot programs for ideas that have already been proven all over the country.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

but also a crucial requirement for sustaining our contracts with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).” Receiving accreditation is not only a testament to the quality of Shelter, Inc.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In-school mental health services help students heal and teachers teach We know trauma is affecting our kids’ ability to learn, but there are things we can do to help them heal. I encourage the Mayor, with the support of civic leaders and council members, to work together to make these services readily available to our students.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Faced with one revelation after another about tragedies involving children previously known to the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, that agency has come up with a knee-jerk response that is simple, obvious and wrong: a worst-in-the-nation mad rush to tear far more children away from their families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Perhaps now, thanks to a performance audit of the Child and Family Services Division, lawmakers will face up to the harm done by Montana’s dubious distinction, child removal capital of America.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2019, Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Welfare (DCW) opted to be one of six states and two tribal nations/territories to be the first sites to pilot the curriculum as part of a national effort to develop a universal curriculum to train and certify foster parents.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) said it recognised the “pressures that councils are facing on children’s services” and that some of the £4.8bn increase in government grant funding for councils over the next three years announced at last year’s spending review would go towards addressing this.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

As Commissioner of the New York State Division for Youth (now the Office of Children and Family Services), he was the highest-ranking black official in the administration of Gov. I was proud to be in the company of someone with influence and respect at the highest level of New York state government. Mario Cuomo.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We need to empathize with both children and their parents by unapologetically advocating for increasing options that empower families and give them a chance to thrive. 1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] [link] [5] [link] [6] [link] [7] [link]

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And if we can connect that care to a well-funded network of other social service providers that can help families access housing, food and employment, we won’t need to turn families away or see children lose access to services because their parents were relocated in the middle of a crisis.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

And if we can connect that care to a well-funded network of other social service providers that can help families access housing, food and employment, we won’t need to turn families away or see children lose access to services because their parents were relocated in the middle of a crisis.

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Brightpoint

APRIL 22, 2024

In doing so, we can begin to dismantle the barriers that prevent families from thriving, fostering a healthier, more equitable Illinois for all.

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Brightpoint

JULY 25, 2022

Stacy Mirro serves our agency as the Director of Child and Family Services for the Chicago Metro region and Tiffanny Powell is our Program Director of Family Support Services in central Illinois.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

In Los Angeles, the family policing agency – which takes away children at one of the highest rates among big cities – is known as the Department of Children and Family Services. But, as the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition explains in a new report, DCFS Stands for Dividing and Conquering Families.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

It’s standard operating procedure for Chicago Public Schools to do this to children – and for DCFS (the Department of Children and Family Services) to investigate. Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do. Unfortunately Chicago is not alone. It also happens in Washington, D.C. ●

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 17, 2022

Your program may include additional holistic treatments, trauma and family services or diagnosis and treatment for any co-existing disorders. Our individualized treatments draw from science and evidence-based care, and we build out each program to fit your unique needs and goals.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition, no child should be removed from a safe, loving caregiver to access mental or behavioral health services. At KVC, we are accountable for how well we care for children and families. The federal Child and Family Services Review looks at each state’s foster care performance against national standards.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Responding to Jones’s proposal, and the decision to end agency work at the trusts, British Association of Social Workers Northern Ireland chair Orlaith McGibbon said: “ Professor Jones’s recommendations are very welcome and represent a vital intervention in the face of insurmountable pressures on children’s social work services.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

.” Agency sector concerns For agency sector body the REC, deputy chief executive Kate Shoesmith welcomed the fact that the government had recognised the “important role agency workers, interims and locums play in children and family services”, driven by “growing demand on social services, increasing pressure on social workers (..)

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

At KVC Health Systems, a family of nonprofits serving children and families, we always start with connection. Healing begins when we have positive relationships in our lives — people who see us, look out for us, and want the best for us. And at KVC, we get to be part of inspiring, life-changing connection stories every day.

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The Guardian

MARCH 9, 2023

Those in need are paying the price The net loss of social workers from children and families services should rightly ring alarm bells in Westminster and across the country ( Social workers in England quitting in record numbers, 23 February ). The social care workforce has faced a decade of Tory neglect, writes Dr Phoebe Beedell.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 3, 2025

Gavin had been the subject of multiple reports to the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), including at least four reports from his school describing him as eating food from the trash and with other signs of neglect and abuse.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

In FY 2023, the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) updated its online mandated reporter training to include a module focused on understanding and addressing implicit bias for mandated reporters. and volunteers who work with children.

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The Frontline

JULY 11, 2022

We’re excited for this opportunity to improve outcomes for children and families by supporting high quality leadership, based on an understanding of what works.” .

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

New York law requires local departments of social services to investigate all fatalities from maltreatment. The states Office of Children and Family Services is required to review each local fatality investigation and issue its own report within six months of the local investigation.

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